Full Name: MARLION PICKETT
Date of Birth: 6/02/1992
Height: 184cm (6ft 0)
Weight: 84 kg
Guernsey: 50
Debut: 28/09/2019, vs GWS, Grand Final
Last Game:
RICHMOND SENIORS
Seasons: 2019 -
Total Games:
Total Goals:
Honours:
2020 Premiership player
2019 Premiership player
2019 VFL Grand Final premiership (Reserves)
2019 Norm Goss Memorial Medal for Best on Ground in VFL Grand Final
2019 Life Member
BIOGRAPHY
One of the most incredible selection debuts in Richmond history - Pickett was named in Richmond's 2019 Grand Final team against GWS. He became the first player to debut in a Grand Final since Keith Batchelor (Collingwood) in 1952, and with the Tigers victory joined Bill James (1920) as the only Tiger player to ever debut in a premiership match.
A week earlier, he had won the Norm Goss Memorial Medal for best on ground in Richmond's Reserves premiership win.
On Grand Final day against GWS, he kicked a goal (which was passed to him by Dustin Martin) and performed exceptionally well including a memorable blind turn in the middle of the ground. He finished in third place in the Norm Smith Medal voting.
As a result of playing in a premiership, Pickett automatically became a life member of the club.
Marlion Pickett was the “ feel good “ story of 2019 after he played in a Premiership with the Tigers senior team in his AFL debut. How did this happen ? Marlion was drafted by Richmond from South Fremantle with selection 13 overall in the 2019 AFL Mid Season Draft in late May.
Marlion was 27 years of age , married to wife Jess , with four children Marlion had also sustained a re-occurrence of a significant finger injury that would keep him from playing for several weeks . In the first weekend of August 2019 Marlion commenced playing with The Tigers VFL team. Marlion quickly established his player credentials eventually playing in the Tigers VFL 2019 Premiership team , winning the Norm Goss Medal awarded to the best player in the Grand Final. What a fairytale !
Meanwhile on the same weekend that the Tigers won the VFL Premiership the Tigers senior team had defeated Geelong in a
Preliminary final and would now play GWS in the Grand Final a week later. The question asked during the week by all Tiger supporters was ‘ is the fairytale really over or would senior coach Damien Hardwick pick Marlion in the senior team for the Grand Final ‘ .
Marlion was voted one of the Tigers best players in the Premiership win over the Giants. Marlion became a regular senior player in the 2020 season which was interrupted by the Covid19 pandemic. The Tigers senior team were again a force in the finals of 2020 and defeated Geelong in the Grand Final winning their second successive Premiership and Marlion was a two time Tiger Premiership player. Marlion described his unbelievable rise to stardom and popularity from a troubled childhood , turbulent teenage years and brushes with the law in his book written with David Warner ‘ BELIEF ‘ first published in November 2020.
PRE RICHMOND
South Fremantle
Balga Puma Panthers Juniors, Manjimup Tigers ( Honours – Colts
Premiership), Nollamora Junior Football Club, Koongamia Indigenous
Amateurs, South Fremantle 2013-2019 ( Honours – WAFL
Representative Team 2015,2016 , Best & Fairest 2018 )
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